leastar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lestar (“vessel, container; beehive; ship, boat, vessel”), possibly a Brythonic loanword. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *lestrom (“pot”), regardless (compare Breton lestr, Welsh llestr).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲasˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

leastar m (genitive singular leastair, nominative plural leastair)

vessel
1. container for liquids
2. cask, firkin
3. (wash-)tub
4. (nautical, of boat) punt, tub
5. (figurative) vessel (person as a container of qualities or feelings)
squat, dumpy, person; person hard to move; latecomer

Declension

Declension of leastar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	leastar	leastair
Vocative	a leastair	a leastara
Genitive	leastair	leastar
Dative	leastar	leastair

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an leastar	na leastair
Genitive	an leastair	na leastar
Dative	leis an leastar don leastar	leis na leastair

Synonyms

(vessel): áras m, galún m, soitheach m
(washtub): tobán níocháin
(nautical): pota

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “leastar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lestar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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